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On the degeneracy of the full AGM-theory of theory-revision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Neil Tennant
Neil Tennant*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. E-mail: tennant.9@osu.edu
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Abstract

A general method is provided whereby bizarre revisions of consistent theories with respect to contingent sentences that they refute can be delivered by revision-functions satisfying both the basic and the supplementary postulates of the AGM-theory of theory-revision.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 661 - 676
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2006

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